Nature Clinical Practice Urology | Table 1 : The evolution of midurethral slings

From the following article:

David E Rapp and Kathleen C Kobashi

Nature Clinical Practice Urology (2008) 5, 194-201
doi:10.1038/ncpuro1052

Name	Manufacturer	Approach
All these kits use a polypropylene mesh sling.
^aGynecare^® Inc., Menlo Park, CA.
^bAmerican Medical Systems Research Corp., Minnetonka, MN.
^cUS Surgical, Norwalk, CT.
^dEthicon Inc., Somerville, NJ.
^eMentor Corp., Santa Barbara CA.
^fBoston Scientific Scimed Inc., Maple Grove, MN.
^gLe Plessis, Robinson, France.
^hColoplast A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark. Abbreviations: NA, not applicable; TVT-O, transobturator vaginal tape.
Retropubic
Transvaginal tape	Gynecare^{^a}	Bottom-to-top
Suprapubic arc (SPARC^®)	AMS^{^b}	Top-to-bottom
IVS Tunneler	US Surgical^{^c}	Bottom-to-top
Transobturator
Monarc	AMS	Outside-in
TVT-O	Ethicon^{^d}	Inside-out
ObTape	Mentor^{^e}	Outside-in
ObTryx	Boston Scientific^{^f}	Outside-in
Obturator IVS Tunneler	US Surgical	Outside-in
UraTape^®	Porgès-Mentor^{^g}	Inside-out
Aris^®	Coloplast^{^h}	Outside-in
Other
MiniArc^®	AMS	NA
Secur^®	Gynecare	NA
Prefyx PPS^®	Boston Scientific	Prepubic

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